Jim Edwards

@Jim_Edwards

http://Fortune.com. Formerly: Founder Moneyin2, EIC/News at Business Insider, author of Say Thank You for Everything.

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Joined September 2008

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 18

Trump’s tariffs are tipping Europe toward recession fortune.com/2025/07/18/tru…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. The U.S. is Europe and Britain’s largest export market. About 20% of EU exports go to the U.S. at a value of around $581 billion. Europe’s trade doesn’t immediately have anywhere else to go.

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Alexei Oreskovic@lexnfx · Jul 25

Did Intel’s CEO just signal that the chipmaker is giving up on Moore’s Law? fortune.com/2025/07/25/int…

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 25

‘Epstein will forever be a loser in people’s minds and Donald Trump doesn’t hang out with losers,’ a Trump insider says. ‘It’s off-brand’ fortune.com/2025/07/25/eps…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Also: All the news and watercooler chat from Fortune.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 25

The stock market just blew through Warren Buffett’s favorite danger signal fortune.com/2025/07/25/sto…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Perhaps that’s one reason stocks are selling off globally this morning. While most indexes in Asia and Europe remain near their all-time highs, there is broad-based but mild selling in all of them.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 24

Today at midday for the first time in my 11 years of living in London there were ZERO public transit issues on Citymapper.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 24

The TRUTH about breadsticks fortune.com/2025/07/24/oli…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. The company’s “never-ending” first course started in the 1980s.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 24

‘Risk-on’! Stocks jump as EU and Japan trade deals give markets the certainty they crave fortune.com/2025/07/24/ris…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. The TACO trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) appears to be in full effect, for anyone who was long on stocks.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 23

Despite the insults, the Fed is listening to Trump—but will likely make him wait anyway fortune.com/2025/07/23/des…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Although Trump thinks Powell is “the Worst Federal Reserve Chairman in History" the Fed chair and his colleagues probably are listening to the president's arguments in favor of a lower rate.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 23

We won! Thanks to everyone.

UUK Supreme Court@UKSupremeCourt · Jul 23

Judgment has been handed down this morning in the matter of R (Respondent) v Hayes (Appellant); R (Respondent) v Palombo (Appellant) UKSC 2024/0087; UKSC 2024/0088: supremecourt.uk/cases/uksc-202….

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 22

Some have asked me to elaborate on my earlier post, so let me start with two hypotheses. The first, and I feel very strongly about this, is that central bank independence is critical for better economic outcomes. It is a core principle that guides my thinking on this issue.…

MMohamed A. El-Erian@elerianm · Jul 22

This morning, US government criticism of both Federal Reserve Chair Powell and the institution itself has broadened to include "mission creep" and the effectiveness of other officials. The developments of the last few days reinforce my view: If Chair Powell's objective is to…

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 22

Trump-Cola is happening. Coca-Cola CFO says the company will launch Trump-backed cane sugar soda: ‘He is a big supporter of the option’ fortune.com/2025/07/22/coc…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Coca-Cola CFO John Murphy told Fortune the cane sugar variant "has been in our pipeline for some time".

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 22

‘Goldilocks’ is ignoring the three bears, Wall Street analysts say fortune.com/2025/07/22/gol…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. “Another week, another tariff salvo, and another market shrug,” Barclays analyst Christian Keller et al. told their clients.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 21

An NHS AI tool generated a set of false diagnoses for one patient that led to him being wrongly invited to a diabetes screening appointment fortune.com/2025/07/20/uk-…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. An NHS official said the incident was a one-off human error, but the organization is facing scrutiny over how AI tools are used and regulated.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 18

"I don't draw pictures"

DDevin Duke@sirDukeDevin · Jul 18

Not only DOES Trump like to draw, he specifically draws in an outline style, which is how the WSJ report describes the drawing of the woman in the letter. He wrote the letter.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 18

Trump’s Epstein problems grow after report he sent a sexually suggestive letter to one-time friend for his 50th birthday fortune.com/2025/07/18/tru…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Trump denies writing the letter, calling it “false, malicious, and defamatory.”

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 18

Trump has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency. Here’s what that means fortune.com/2025/07/18/tru…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Chronic venous insufficiency, or CVI, happens when veins in the legs can't properly carry blood back to the heart. That can lead to blood pooling in the lower legs.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 17

For one hour, investors got a taste of a new world where the Fed is run by a ‘stooge’—and they hated every minute of it fortune.com/2025/07/17/one…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. A noncredible chair would face resistance from inside the Fed, former Fed Vice Chair Richard Clarida says.

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 17

For one hour, investors got a taste of a new world where the Fed is run by a ‘stooge’—and they hated every minute of it fortune.com/2025/07/17/one…

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Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore@sjblakemore · Jul 16

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

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Jim Edwards@Jim_Edwards · Jul 16

HPE’s deal with activist investor Elliott may still cost CEO Antonio Neri his job—or end with a breakup of the company fortune.com/2025/07/16/hpe…

Jim_Edwards's tweet card. Since 2022, Elliott has ousted 14 CEOs at companies where it got involved.

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